EARTH
4Insect Knight
ATK:
1900
DEF:
1500
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Of all Insect fighters, he is the paragon of the Indestructible Insect Invaders, which only the elite of the elite can join. We can no longer ignore their unmatched battle prowess.
Insect Knight — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 65 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 67 · Deck: 63 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Material body / Normal
Why it scores here
Insect Knight is a Normal Monster frame with no effect text in the evidence, so it is treated as a vanilla 1900 ATK / 1500 DEF Level 4 Earth Insect body. Its score comes from being a clean, generic body that converts into material and stays easy to run, not from its ATK. The evidence shows it in all 197 sampled decks at a 2.5-copy average across 21 archetypes, which confirms real accessibility and portability, but that frequency is not counted as power. With no combo evidence and no interaction, the card scores low on conversion and effect interaction.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 60 | Runs 2.5 copies on average in all 197 sampled decks across 21 archetypes, but it is a plain body with no searcher route in the evidence, so it is only live when drawn (observed). |
| Combo & Conversion | 35 | No combo boards are recorded and no effect text exists, so it converts only as a single extra body with help (inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 45 | A 1-for-1 body with no card advantage, refuel or banish, so it is roughly even (inferred). |
| Effect & Interaction | 5 | No effect text, so it provides no negation, removal or hand-trap reach (verified). |
| Material Utility | 85 | A Level 4 Earth Insect Normal body that is a clean generic material whether or not it has an effect, since it has none to negate (inferred). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 45 | Cannot be negated because it has no effect, but it is vulnerable to any removal and has no recursion or multi-zone use (inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 85 | Runs 1 to 3 copies with no garnet or lock cost and is splashable as a body (observed). |
Calculation
Weight profile: Primary role Material body / Normal, no secondary role blend. Intrinsic ≈ 67, Deck ≈ 63, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Clean generic Level 4 Earth Insect body that converts into material
- Zero garnet or lock cost, with 1 to 3 copies accepted in deck
- Portable across 21 archetypes in the sample
Weaknesses
- No effect, so no interaction, negation or searching
- No combo evidence, so no observed conversion into a board
- Dies to any removal and gains nothing from a graveyard or recursion route
Counters / choke points
- Any removal or destruction effect
- Monster-targeting effects that do not depend on the card having an effect
Best use
Level 4 Earth Insect material body. Decks: Inzektor, Beetrooper, Tenyi, Kaiju, Dinowrestler, Millennium. Suggested copies: 3.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: frame_type is normal, so the card has no printed effect; ATK 1900 and DEF 1500 at Level 4 Earth Insect; description is flavor text only and contains no effect text
- Observed: Appears in 197 of the sampled decks at an average of 2.5 copies, with 3 copies in 148 decks; Spread across 21 distinct archetypes, led by Inzektor, Beetrooper, Tenyi, Kaiju and Dinowrestler; Top partners are high-frequency staples, which confirms use but does not measure power
- Inferred: Works as a generic Level 4 material body in the sampled archetypes; Vulnerable to any removal because it has no protection or recursion; Deck synergy is moderate because the partner rates reflect staple frequency rather than measured conversion
- Data gaps: no combos supplied, so combo conversion is text-only inference no guides supplied no banlist token, so 3 copies is assumed as the limit no usage statistics (StatisticsCard), so inclusion is taken from the deck sample only no effect text beyond flavor, so the vanilla treatment rests on frame_type normal